domingo, 12 de octubre de 2014

MALALA, A BRAVE GIRL

Por Evy Basma



MALALA ( the one that suffers ) In 2012 a 15 year old girl was shot in the head on a schoolbus in Pakistan. Malala was 11 when she started writing for BBC about her daily life in a Taliban controlled area, Mingora. The Taliban had closed down all the girl schools,many of them, private schools ran by her father. A poet and an eager devotee to education. When she told her father that she wanted to be a doctor, he said : you can do more than that, you can change the world. Malala had a blog. She wrote about the importance of educating children. She spoke about girls as an equal value to the society,as men. At the age of 15, she was already a threat to the Taliban. And a taliban member dressed in white entered the schoolbus and put his gun to her face. She was taken to a hospital in England. Her mother waived her head scarf in the sky as the helicopter took her away, It means : I give my daughter to Allah. Malala survied. She was already, before she was shot, an international voice, but her story would soon be famous all over the world. Malala, one of two Nobelpeace price award winner of 2014. Only 17, the youngest price winner ever. She is still a name on the Taliban deathlist, an enemy of Islam. But as he said : I am not afraid to die, they can kill me, but they can never kill the case. In Pakistan and India girls are married at the age of 11, some years later they are running big families. All of them know the word responsability. So off course, getting the peace price is an honor, but she is not afraid of the responsability. As she say : we are born with responsability. But the peace price itself is not the aim, it is the start : she will now be able to speak and to be listened too. And her mission is that all girls must have the possibility to education and all children the right to live in peace. Malala : the day I was born, everyone felt pity with my mother and nobody congratulated my father. I was born in the dawn of day , just when the stars had stopped twinkeling in the sky. But,I was a girl born in a country where they celebrate boy babies, with fire arms, shooting into the sky, while baby girls are hidden behind a curtain, we are just ment to breed babies and food, like stupid screaming cowsWhen she spoke in the U.N she had a white scarf, once used by Indira Gandhi. Malala Yousafzai will might one day be the prime minister of Pakistan, but she do not think she ever will be able to,on her own, choose her future husband.She will obey her parents,obey their choice, she think...But still it seems that marriage is far from her mind. Now, living in Birmingham, faced with another culture, she misses her friends. But she has one advice to young western girls : Preciate your books, your right to education, love your teachers. Education is a diamond. And that is probably why Taliban fared her so much. They are afraid of educated girls.And girls need to be supported by girls, all over the world. Supported by men, as Malala described her father : He is my hero, because he never cut my wings. He let me fly.

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